Evening Talk: English Battlefields - The Importance of Terrain

This talk by Michael Rayner, chair of the Battlefields Trust's Battlefield Panel, will look at how landscape is crucial to understanding why and how battles were fought. This will include looking at how terrain influenced commanders, as well as how landscape studies are used to interpret what happened. Examples will be drawn from a range of periods and across the country. A fully updated edition of Michael's 'English Battlefields' was published by The History Press in June 2025 - copies will be available for purchase at the event.